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Learn the basics of storing and organizing information on your Apple II Plus
or IIe home computer. This clearly written book includes DATA BASE, a
simple, functional, and cross-referenced data base management program
written in Applesoft BASIC. Using DATA BASE as a reference, the author
shows how data base management techniques apply to common chores.
Keep mailing lists in order and print address labels, maintain household lists
or inventories, organize appointments, manage checking accounts, put
together a computerized tutor, and keep track of investment portfolios.
And all with microcomputer power.
Complete line-by-line commentaries and variable indexes enable advanced
programmers to tackle more ambitious data-management tasks or more
specialized reports.
Preface:
The primary objectives of this book are to:
1) Serve as an introduction to using a personal computer to organize
and manipulate information. In some circles this general concept is
referred to loosely as data base management.
2) Present a rudimentary, but functional, information management
program written in high-level language (BASIC). This program, by
itself, may be used to explore and understand fundamental computerized
information management processes.
3) Provide, for the more advanced student or enthusiast, a well documented
program framework from which one may proceed to
modify and enhance the capabilities of the core program.
In striving to meet such goals, a large number of program design
decisions had to be made involving numerous constraints. Where
conflicts arose, the basic principles followed were to opt for simplicity of
operation and/or presentation at the sacrifice of programming sophistication,
operating speed, or advanced capabilities.
After many years of programming, I am thoroughly convinced that
no single program can come even close to satisfying all the requirements
of the general public at large. By providing the type of extensive
program documentation included in this book, however, I have
attempted to provide a platform from which the dissatisfied can build or
restructure to their heart's content. This provides considerably more
freedom of choice than one receives when one purchases a program on a
"locked" disk.
I believe that providing freedom of choice is a good part of what life
is all about. An exciting aspect about the use of personal computers is
that they can aid us in making suitable choices. An exciting aspect about
data base management is that it can help us to organize information so
that we might make intelligent suitable choices. An exciting concept
about computer programs in general is that, if we know how they work,
we can make suitable intelligent choices concerning how they perform in
the future,
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